Seeing that Lao Mao and Da Huang actually saw through the trap in the bookshelf, Xiao Feng and I put aside the matter of letters for the time being and walked over quickly.
The thing in the wooden box must be some kind of treasure. The old cat looked at it carefully and after making sure that there was no mechanism in the wooden box, he opened the wooden box carefully.
After opening it, I was a little disappointed. Apart from the complicated decoration and exquisite carvings, this wooden box was actually empty.
Dahuang was dejected: "It's over, it seems that those who came in before have taken this treasure away."
I quickly asked Xiao Feng: "Xiao Feng, have you seen this wooden box?"
Xiao Feng frowned and looked, then nodded and said, "I think I've really seen it before..."
"Oh?" The old cat became more energetic, and while looking at the wooden box, he asked: "When you saw this wooden box, was there anything strange about this wooden box?"
Xiao Feng said: "There must be nothing strange about it. After all, it is just an ordinary wooden box. In my impression, my grandfather often held this wooden box and looked at it. It seems that there is some secret in this wooden box."
Dahuang still shook his head: "What secret can there be? Everything inside has been taken away, leaving only an empty box."
The old cat smiled softly: "Dahuang, have you ever heard of buying a coffin and returning a pearl?"
"What? Huanzhu? I have only heard of Huanzhu Princess." Dahuang touched his head and smiled.
"Sigh... You guys, if you have time, read more books. Buying a pearl for a pearl is about a person who had no eyesight in the past and saw a box containing pearls. He only thought the box was beautiful, but he didn't think the pearls were good.
As a result, I bought a box of poor value and returned the pearl of high value..." Old Cat said slowly.
"Why did you suddenly think of teaching me idioms?" Dahuang asked with a frown.
The old cat smiled and said: "However, the situation before us is exactly the opposite of this idiom. When normal people see an empty box, they are often disappointed and feel that the box is empty and the good things have been taken away. However, they ignore one point.
, that is, the good thing is actually the box itself.”
"Damn it, old cat, your theory is a bit cool." Dahuang said with wide eyes.
The old cat showed the box to us with a smile, and then said: "All the mystery of this wooden box lies in the patterns on it. These patterns look like just decoration, but in fact they are very complicated. These patterns are the veins of the human body."
trend."
"That's true. When I was a child, I often saw my grandfather combing his acupuncture points in front of this wooden box!" Xiao Feng nodded and said.
I was dumbfounded by what Xiaofeng and Lao Mao said. I didn’t expect Lao Mao to actually be able to see through the mystery in this wooden box. Many people have entered this study over the years, and there are even more smart people. This wooden box
We may not be the first to discover it. However, Lao Mao may be the first person to find the secret of the wooden box.
Dahuang heard that this wooden box even had mysterious carvings. He came closer to look at it carefully. After reading it, he asked: "Tell me, what on earth are these carvings? Martial arts secrets?"
Dahuang said it carelessly, but the old cat nodded solemnly and said: "You are right this time. This is indeed a martial arts secret book, and it is also a very important secret book."
At this point, Old Mao looked at us and continued slowly: "This is the essence of the Way of Heaven. The Way of Heaven that Master Long Ya and the others have studied for so long is only a rare part of it. Xiaofeng's grandfather is indeed
The masters of the Heavenly Dao Ren Sect, I just took a look here, and I know that the secrets inside are far stronger than those we have practiced before."
"Really?" I looked at the old cat in surprise: "After studying these, are you going to become a great master?"
Lao Mao did not rush to admit it, but looked at Xiao Feng and asked solemnly: "Xiao Feng, after all, this is your grandfather's thing. If I want to move this thing, I can't get your grandfather's consent. Don't you agree?"
Xiaofeng nodded quickly: "Of course I agree."
The old cat smiled and nodded: "Thank you very much."
After dealing with the wooden box, we focused on the letter. The old cat read the letter quietly, with a very shocked expression on his face.
"Old Cat, what exactly is this symbol...?"
"I don't know. It's the first time I've seen this sign, but I feel it looks familiar..." The old cat muttered, "I always feel that this sign represents something..."
"what?"
"The underworld, the underworld, the underworld." The old cat whispered: "It's almost these things, because when I saw this sign, these were the things that came to mind..."
We all don’t quite understand what Lao Mao said. But this is just Lao Mao’s intuition, and he himself can’t explain it clearly.
Apart from this letter, we seemed to be unable to find anything else useful. However, as we continued to search, the little girl's voice suddenly reappeared.
"We are all little frogs...all little frogs..."
A cold voice sounded from outside, and all of us were startled. It wasn't that we were afraid, it was just that it felt weird.
The old cat whispered: "Is this the sound you heard in the house before?"
I nodded: "Exactly the same."
Old Mao frowned: "This is weird. This kind of thing has never happened before. When Dahuang and I heard it outside, the sound clearly came from inside this room."
However, just when we were all very nervous, Dahuang looked outside the door and shouted sharply: "Ah!"
Looking around, we were shocked by what we saw!
Through the gap in the bookshelf, we saw a face, a pale, ferocious-looking face of a woman.
The iron door had been opened at some point, and the face poked its head through the crack in the door, staring at us quietly, motionless and unblinking.
This woman looked to be in her fifties. Her hair was very long, shaggy, and yellow. Her eyes were extremely small, her face was very large, and she actually had a lot of pockmarks on her face.
What a weird woman.
I was shocked and already thought of her identity.
She must be the woman in the duty room, the aunt who looks after the door.
"Who are you!?" Dahuang's reaction was not that fast. Before I could tell him, this guy had already started asking.
However, the aunt was not afraid. When faced with Dahuang's question, the aunt responded sharply: "Who are you? Who are you?!"
The old cat looked embarrassed and whispered: "We happened to pass by..."
"Fart!" The aunt suddenly came in. She was wearing green autumn clothes and long johns, wrapped in a down jacket, and holding a flashlight: "Tell me, are you four thieves?"
Facing the aunt's questioning, I felt a little scared. After all, we did come here just to find something, and illegally sneaking into the agency will be detained... I didn't want to cause such a big thing.
However, before I could think of a countermeasure, the old cat suddenly sneered, took out his cigarette and slowly lit it, it seemed that everything had a countermeasure.
"You...what are you doing?" Auntie was surprised when she saw the old cat's fearless look.
The old cat smiled and said, "Did you just talk about the four of us?"
The aunt was startled, then broke into a cold sweat, took a step back and said, "How...what?"
However, when the old cat said this sentence, I suddenly realized it.
Four of us?
Xiaofeng and I are now ghosts in a state of nothingness. This aunt is obviously a living person with a mortal body. How could she see Xiaofeng and me? There is no way she can wake up at night with cow tears, right? What are you talking about?
She can't have yin and yang eyes, right?
The old cat caught her handle, so he was no longer afraid. He slowly took a puff of cigarette and said: "Since we are all of the same kind, our rules should be changed. Don't pretend to be like us."
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Old Mao smiled and pointed at Xiao Feng and me: "You must also be able to see the abilities of these two people. If you can't see it, I can also tell you that all the evil ghosts in the underworld of Shanghai City have been found and beaten.
It may not be more than one slap to pass the two of them, I am not bragging, we are all gentlemen, it is best to only use words and not use hands."
When the aunt heard what the old cat said, she had to restrain her initial appearance and put on a gloomy face. She was indeed not a simple character: "Haha, it seems that I encountered a fierce dragon crossing the river today?"